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Intergenerational partnerships in adult day centers
— importance of age-appropriate environments and behaviors | | Author(s) | Sonia Miner Salari |
| Journal title | The Gerontologist, vol 42, no 3, June 2002 |
| Pages | pp 321-333 |
| Keywords | Children ; Older people ; Social interaction ; Attitudes to the old of general public ; Day centres ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The potential for infantilisation of clients in days centres that offer occasional combined adult and child day care is examined. The study uses a comparative ethnographic approach, which analysed observation and interview data collected from two adult day centres that offered intergenerational activities. Special attention was paid to the environment, behaviours, and clients' interaction patterns. The centres' cultures varied widely in age appropriateness, opportunities for autonomy, privacy regulation, choice and adult interaction, especially as children were introduced into the setting. Infantilisation occurred in the intergenerational programme when the adults and children were treated as status equals, and the activities and environments were only child oriented. Older people perceived a need for an "escape option" if contact with children was overstimulating or age inappropriate. Positive intergenerational experiences involved adults in a mentoring role, voluntary participation, and client-initiated contact with children. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020703206 A |
| Classmark | SBC: B: TMA: TOB: NMC: 7T |
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